Depraved English
| Author | : Peter Novobatzky |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2014-07-08 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781466875449 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1466875445 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (445 Downloads) |
Download or read book Depraved English written by Peter Novobatzky and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From aboiement to zooerastia, a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English language This unusual, un-put-downable little volume by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words--words that have fallen out of common usage but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe a colleague's maschalephidrosis (runaway armpit perspiration), a boss's pleonexia (insane greed), or a buddy's fumosities (ill-smelling vapors from a drunken person's belches)? Word lovers, chronic insulters, berayers, bescumbers, and bespewers need feel like tongue-tied witlings no more: Finding the correct, keck-inspiring word just got a whole lot easier with Depraved English.
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